Being a harvest intern is hard work. There are many weeks where you're working 12-14 hours per day, 6 days per week. That's a lot of time spent on your feet and all of the bending can hurt your back. When my feet start to hurt, my good mood fades quickly and it took me weeks to figure out how to ...
10 Things Harvest Interns Need
2022 Gift Guide for Wine Enthusiasts
Looking for ideas of something to give the wine enthusiast in your life? Look no further. This year, I've compiled a list of thoughtful gifts the wine lover in your life would be ecstatic to receive that aren't more bottles of wine. Although, no one has ever been disappointed to receive a bottle of ...
Wine Region Exploration: Napa Valley
About Napa Valley Napa Valley is one of the most famous wine regions in the entire world. It starts with George Calvert Yount planting Napa Valley grapes in 1839. He was the first to do so and then other pioneers such as John Patchett and Hamilton Walker Crabb followed. John and Hamilton were the ...
10 Common Wine Terms Translated
If you've ever drank a glass of wine in your life, it's likely that you stumbled across some wine jargon at some point in time. You may have seen these words in the store, on the back of the bottle, or you may have even heard them in movies/television. A lot of these terms are intuitive (i.e. acid), ...
Wine Region Exploration: Livermore Valley
About Livermore Valley Believe it or not, Livermore Valley is one of California's oldest wine regions. In the 1840s, a man named Robert Livermore planted the first wine grapes in Livermore Valley. At the time, Livermore wasn't a town yet. Livermore wasn't registered as a town until 1869 by William ...
How to Get a Job in the Wine Industry
When I was getting my bachelor's degree, I used to work at my school's career center. By the end of the school year, I had reviewed and corrected over 500 resumes and 100 cover letters. After discovering wine in Italy and taking a wine class during my last semester of college, I leveraged my career ...